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Movers & Shakers

European Voice

6/2/10, 9:00 PM CET

Updated 4/12/14, 7:39 PM CET

Marek Belka has been nominated as governor of the National Bank of Poland to succeed Slawomir Skrzypek, who was killed along with the Polish President Lech Kacznyski in a plane crash in Russia on 10 April. Belka, who was prime minister of Poland from May 2004 to October 2005, is currently head of the European department of the International Monetary Fund.

Klaus Rave has been elected chairman of the Global Wind Energy Council. Rave, who is managing director of the Investitionsbank Schleswig-Holstein and vice-president of the European Wind Energy Association, replaces Arthouros Zervos.

Edgar Nordmann, the chairman of the board of Nordmann Rassmann, has been elected president of the European Association of Chemical Distributors (FECC), replacing Mauro Di Vito, the managing director of Warwick Massa.

Peter Kendall, president of the UK’s National Farmers’ Union, has been elected chairman of the food-chain working group of COPA, the European Committee of Professional Agricultural Organisations.